Running Through Shadows

This is a powerful and honest account of childhood in Soviet-era Lithuania - a time when freedom was limited, discipline was strict, and change came slowly, then all at once. Through vivid scenes and emotional detail, it explores life behind the Iron Curtain: icy winters filled with secret games, homemade sleds, and the quiet fears that followed disasters like Chernobyl.The story captures what it felt like to grow up surrounded by silence, where every action had rules and every word could carry weight. And then came the cracks in the system - Western toys, fireworks, new fruits no one had ever seen before, and the taste of a different world finally reaching a closed-off country.Told through the eyes of a child who lived it, this book brings to life a forgotten place and time, filled with laughter, questions, survival, and the strength of growing up in a world shaped by shadows and change.